skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To think that some people are still writing code like in the 70's.

I'm one of those, sort of. I did install vscode used autocomplete, find definition and on the fly compilation for a while. In the end I turned it all off bar the syntax checking.

Even my i7 32GB laptop it just got in the way, my typing lagging by many seconds while it recompiled and pondered autocomplete. I left syntax checking on only because while it still fell behind in revealing typos, sometimes by minutes, but at least it kept responding to my keystrokes.

I eventually gave up and went back to vim. It's a sad state of affairs when I can find a definition faster with 40 year old tools than a modern IDE can do it. I respect your decision to use modern tools of course, but I'm not sure I'm the luddite here. An Integrated Development Environment that runs slower than I can think is not an improvement in my books.

As for languages and online docs, one of my first steps in learning any new language is to memorise it's standard library. I don't use other libraries unless the bring something very substantial to the table, in such case I memorise them too. Not having to wait for a IDE to suggest autocompletes means the code flows off my fingers, but also means if the IDE starts lagging my typing I get really pissed off.

All that said, I recently tried using IDE + AI + integrated RAG, and was blown away. It's code suggestions are still so bad it's not worth taking the time to evaluate them, but omg as super grep it's amazing. Yes, it might take 15 to 30 seconds to evaluate my "can you find the code that does X" plain English request and provide links to the key functions, but it would take me hours to read through tens of thousands of lines code I haven't seen before to get the same result. Finally, after 40 years, we may have seen the first step change in programmer tooling since the move from line editors.
Nobody thinks EVs will replace 100% of vehicles in the next few years. This is the premise I constantly hear from people trying to argue that the power infrastructure isn't ready. EV ownership, charging availability, and per infrastructure are all growing slowly and in tandem and there's no reason to expect otherwise.
Most rulesets allow you to "play it out" without losing points. Humans don't do it because it's boring and potentially insulting or obnoxious.

Judging whether something "is dead" emerges from a combination of basic principles and skill at the game. Formally, we can distinguish concepts of unconditionally alive or "pass-alive" (cannot be captured by any legal sequence of moves) and unconditionally dead (cannot be made unconditionally alive by any sequence of moves), in the sense of Benson's algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%27s_algorithm_(Go) , not the only one with that name apparently). But players are more generally concerned with "cannot be captured in alternating play" (i.e., if the opponent starts first, it's always possible to reach a pass-alive state; ideally the player has read out how to do so) and "cannot be defended in alternating play" (i.e., not in the previous state, and cannot be made so with any single move).

Most commonly, an "alive" string of stones either already has two separate "eyes" or can be shown to reach such a configuration inevitably. (Eyes are surrounded points such that neither is a legal move for the opponent; supposing that playing on either fails to capture the string or any other string - then it is impossible to capture the string, because stones are played one at a time, and capturing the string would require covering both spaces at once.)

In rarer cases, a "seki" (English transliteration of Japanese - also see https://senseis.xmp.net/?Seki) arises, where both player's strings are kept alive by each others' weakness: any attempt by either player to capture results in losing a capturing race (because the empty spaces next to the strings are shared, such that covering the opponent's "liberty" also takes one from your own string). I say "arises", but typically the seki position is forced (as the least bad option for the opponent) by one player, in a part of the board where the opponent has an advantage and living by forming two eyes would be impossible.

Even rarer forms of life may be possible depending on the ruleset, as well as global situations that prevent one from reducing the position to a sum of scores of groups. For example, if there is no superko restriction, a "triple ko" (https://senseis.xmp.net/?TripleKo) can emerge - three separate ko (https://senseis.xmp.net/?Ko) positions, such that every move must capture in the "next" ko in a cycle or else lose the game immediately.

It gets much more complex than that (https://senseis.xmp.net/?GoRulesBestiary), although also much rarer. Many positions that challenge rulesets are completely implausible in real play and basically require cooperation between the players to achieve.
Sorry but the main dev of Inav is a very experienced dev with a lot of knowledge. He has many youtube videos about developing of drone software/hardware.
If you don't waste that time scrolling Instagram, Reddit, etc.
How can I compete with a prisoner that works for ramen?
This is something I have been noodling with a bit. I'm 40 (started in my late 20's). I welcome the distractions as well.

When I was learning, I would always have a movie or TV show on in the background.

On stream, I am constantly responding to chat. But I am able to delay that by up to a minute most times. So I get most of my work done in short bursts.

BUT, while distracted by a TV show or a chatter on stream, my brain is probably not completely distracted. It becomes a moment for diffuse thought to kick in rather than relying purely on focused thought. (For anyone reading and unaware, diffuse thinking is what causes "shower thoughts")

So, those distractions are just a way of forcing myself to toggle between thinking states.

Diffuse thought is also the reason why I never end on a resolution for the day. I always try to have something that I can stew on overnight while going to sleep, waking up, showering, doing the dishes, etc. I have solved several bugs on my morning commute back when I used to go into the office.

Something somewhat related. People who do non-traditional sleep patterns like biphasic, or even something as extreme as uberman, are able to get to sleep faster than most people with traditional sleep patterns. It is something that you can actually train and practice. Forcing diffuse thought more often maybe helps it kick in quicker too?
I know that it is fashionable to criticize PGP, but...

- I feel knowledgeable enough to use PGP correctly w.r.t. my threat model.

- Whenever someone claims that "every single use-case has a better alternative", I look at the alternative. Many (most of the?) times the alternative is just not mature enough.

So my question is the following: if PGP is so complicated and confusing, and alternatives are so much better, why is it that so many people keep using PGP?

Give me viable alternatives, and I will use them. But as long as PGP is the most convenient (yes, I mean convenient) I find, I will use PGP.
I wish there was more written in the readme about the motivation for this project.
I don't suppose you could directly link to a position? It would be interesting to see KataGo make a blunder of the sort you describe, because traditional Go engines were able to avoid them many years ago.
An interesting angle to take/experiment. I don’t think it necessarily means anything about capability of ai to automate tasks, including medicine, but i do think it is neat. Looking forward to reading the paper.
I... Did not know that was public information.
Cars without backup camera tend to have good mirrors (exceptions exist).

Once you put the camera there by default, the designers/engineers gets many extra degrees of freedom since they aren't constrained by visibility requirements. Those degrees of freedom are certain to be exercised! On the total this is probably probably a good thing, but it sucks when the rear camera(s) are covered with snow or grime.
> I disagree that my use of language was unreasonable. And to clarify, I do not wish to continue this conversation, productively or otherwise.

bye then
> I found out about the data stream from https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/, which has considerably more and more interesting stats than just how full the piss tank is.

> I will not be adding any of them.

This, right here, is how you communicate non-goals of a project. Just perfect open-source communication best practices. We all stand to learn from this project.

(Though, predictably, some of us sit to interact with it.)
Knowing the status of the ISS piss tank is its own reward.
Privacy is not a concern in space I guess. Absolutely horrific, I love it.
this is true overall, but for the last decade there have been many research-oriented positions at large tech companies for which the PhD degree is a formal job requirement. others don’t make it a formal requirement, but demand research experience which can be gotten most easily as a PhD student.
Biologically inspired neuron models like Hodgkin–Huxley are about as far from an emulation of real neuron behavior as a paper airplane is from the space shuttle. We can learn things from using them and they're an important stepping stone, but they aren't really that useful.

That being said, I hope the founder keeps it up — it's great to have more bright, driven people in this field.
Could it be that a lot of the inhabitants are Inuit? I could imagine they refuse modern health care, similar to Amish people in the US? A quick google search shows an average life expectancy for Amish people to be 71.

I might check those hypotheses later.
There's a paper I saw a while ago that uses LSTM for some kind of technical analysis trading, and the portfolio grew from 115k to 155k in a year, but also consistently

Seems like there's clear patterns to the market. If only these apps would teach people these patterns and trading techniques in depth rather than just letting them trade
This is weird.
In my lab, we try to focus on the science and less on applicative deep learning, of course it has its uses and we develop 'fashionable' deep learning with some students, but I think the value of a PhD remains in the path taken.

It's all that you learn doing it, it is not just knowledge, it's the scientific method, social skills, learning to communicate science.

A PhD is a personal path, an experience in life that changes it profoundly, I hope that those students will be able to handle any kind of future issues, not just a very niche applicative aspect of deep learning.
Putting aside all the crypto complications, the number one thing a user needs to know is not to ever put something sensitive in the subject field.

You know, that huge box that is literally the second field your email client presents to you. The dissonance is catastrophic.

As far as I can tell the number one real world use case for PGP mail is computer people cosplaying as spooks.

It is the user interface that is insecure, and there's no fixing that.
Systemd improves image features and adds varlink API
They could be a set of inputs, but there is currently nothing being done to consider these inputs. For all practical purposes these inputs is being ignored; and I’m claiming this is problematic because the system generating those inputs is actually the majority of what mechanics comprise a mind.

Simulating a brain with its neurons cannot achieve the desired outcome. A perfect digital brain won’t do anything.
I mean,

> Not the epitome of good coding practices since this was my first Swift & macOS app ever, may break in exciting ways at the slightest excuse.

sounds like it's a learning exercise. One of my first interesting programs was a weather app; this is just a weirder version of that.
> Do you want to be able to add inches and feet?

This probably doesn't have to be too complicated; the usual answer for Rust is "no". Rust doesn't even let you "just" add two unsigned integers of different sizes. Following that design, I would imagine units would require an explicit "turn feet into inches" or the other way around.
A cast iron skillet doesn't evolve.

The nice thing about Vim is that it evolves to your needs as you configure and reconfigure and tweak as you go along, exploring different itches.

I change my .vimrc ever so often, and the changes usually rewards me.
> I think too many people think friendship is what happens between people that are the same

This is so true. Just think, why is it that as children we often become friends with the kid who lives next door or across the street? Is it that we magically have the same tastes? Or is it just that we see them all the time?
Another small jagged bit of woe is how inimical companies are to the idea that an individual curates our managers their own digital footprint. (To say nothing of our choices in digital consumption.)

Features getting locked behind client-side apps, APIs getting removed or enshittified, and I fear that any workarounds will run afoul of callously paranoid bot-detection algorithms with no recourse or appeal.
What is "cyclic" about the adversarial strategy, exactly? Is it depending on a superko rule? That might potentially be interesting, and explanatory. Positions where superko matters are extremely rare in human games, so it might be hard to seed training data. It probably wouldn't come up in self-play, either.
The c value you compute depends on computing the b value, though. It's not a recursion carried out in a way which avoids square roots. It's just carrying out the same AM-GM sequence computation, and then taking a certain weighted harmonic mean over that sequence, which converges just because that original sequence converges anyway.

Note that the arithmetic-harmonic mean I think you were going for is just the geometric mean (not the arithmetic-geometric mean, just the geometric mean simpliciter; see https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Arithmetic-HarmonicMean.html).
I can't imagine what experience could have possibly led you to that conclusion. Current generation custom bottom bracket motors from Trek from Specialized and from Bosch and from Yamaha are all radically different and some of them are way better than others and none of them are interchangeable.
It's not the first time Egyptian investigators disregarded reality to keep face:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-crash-of-egyptair-fl...
You're right that there's more parts that don't rust on modern vehicles. However, newer vehicles tend to be unibody compared to the older body-on-frame. When it comes to salty corrosion, parts sandwiched together often create places for the saltwater to be trapped, making the problem worse.

The more I look at newer cars, the more I tend to believe that they will last exactly as long as the warranty, then disintegrate into repair hell.
Spend some time doing math and you'll pick up a few without noticing. Somewhat path dependent, but they do crop up.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_constants
You could potentially send a notification every time a crew member takes a whizz
The website for the ventriloquism museum featured in the article can be found at: https://www.venthaven.org/

Atlas Obscura featured an article about the same ventriloquism museum: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-worlds-only-ventri...

Atlas Obscura also featured a particularly interesting article on the "demonic" origins of ventriloquism:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-demonic-origins-of...
> I don’t know why you bothered linking it.

Because it's their article and they try to get people to use their BunnyCDN affiliate link instead.
I’m just waiting for Apple to invent the iSpace Station, where privacy is taken seriously and Google writes them a trillion dollar check to be the default service provider.
This is the first and only macOS menu bar app I've ever used and I couldn't be happier.
Are you advocating that these sports follow professional wrestling, switching from being sporting events to scripted entertainment? Or that this has already happened?
I WFH since pandemic. I have it good with current company and my home setup is a blast.

But next year resolution is that I will be renting a desk in a coworking space.

While I don’t have problem as I have enough fiends and family to hang out with.

I believe that I leave business opportunities lying somewhere there on the table and if current contract ends I will be on much worse bargaining position than when I will having more business connections hopefully created by sharing co work space.
idk man I graduated a decade ago and switched jobs every 2ish years and now my income dwarfs my expenses and I saved $100k+ for a down payment years ago. It's those raises from changing jobs, promotions, career development that paid off more than which ETF I stuffed my money into.

I don't live frugally or have roommates (except my wife who hasn't worked for years).

I've literally never had expenses so high I couldn't max my 401k, HSA, and go to restaurants, travel, buy fun stuff, keep an good emergency fund. And I lived in Seattle most of that decade. Also my job is super easy for me.

Crazy how much a degree from a midwest state school can do...
I really hope they stick with it and become a viable competitor in every market segment a few more years down the line.
I wonder how many amazing things put there died a crib death because the creator struggled to find a "real" motivation for it's existence.

I reckon more often than not "because I wanted to" is more than enough for many things.
> Seeking and maintaining meaningful equations becomes difficult as we grow older.

Meaningful equations, huh? Sounds like the kind of plagiarism where someone replaces words with things found in a thesaurus.
PostgreSQL Meets ScyllaDB's Lightning Speed and Monstrous Scalability
Seattle is a high COL area and even there with a tech job you can accumulate a lot of cash..
More, now from books, defining or illustrating center-embedding. I'm not convinced that the constructions addressed by Martinez, et al. qualify, nor that legal writing has a particular problem with actual center-embedding, strictly speaking.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Type_Logical_Syntax/ML7...

The name center embedding comes from the fact that the relative clause is embedded after the nominal subject head and before the VP.

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https://www.google.com/books/edition/Narrative_Complexity/-u...

Consider sentences 1 and 2 below. The first is right branching, the second center embedded.

1. The man drove the car that hit the dog that died.

2. The dog the car the man drove hit died.

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https://www.google.com/books/edition/Human_Language/Xr60DwAA...

A well-known construction is center embedding, where several (of the same type of) structures nested inside one another make sentences increasingly difficult to process. . . .

(7) a. The intern [who the nurse supervised] had bothered the administrator [who lost the medical reports].

b. The administrator [who the intern [who the nurse supervised] had bothered] lost the medical reports.

Sentence (7b) has been shown to be considerably more difficult to process . . .

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https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encoding_and_Navigating...

[An example of multiple center-embedding that tends to be prohibitively confusing]:

The patient the nurse the clinic had hired admitted met Jack.

[An example of a sentence "with two degrees of center-embedding" that "can still be comprehended under certain conditions"]:

The reporter who everyone that I met trusts said the president won't resign yet.

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https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Origins_of_Grammar/...

'The typical center-embedded clause is a relative clause' (p. 374). One firm constraint is 'Double relativization of objects (The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt) does not occur (p. 365). An example of a centre-embedded clause (underlined here) at depth 2 (C^2) in Karlsson's notation) is "She thought that he who had been so kind would understand." This is centre-embedded because there is material from its superordinate clause before it (he) and after it (would understand). . . .

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Others not quoted:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/English_Grammar/Lem4miC...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Languag...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Syntax/1U4gAwAAQBAJ?hl=...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Handbook_of_Linguis...
Do you have any curiosity at all about the world around you?
There's a paper I saw a while ago that uses patterns for some kind of roulette strategy, and the bankroll grew from 115k to 155k in a year, but also consistently.

Seems like there's clear patterns to how roulette tables operate. If only casinos would teach people these patterns and strategies in depth rather than just letting them play.
It's publicly funded!
... because a violently hegemonic nuclear superpower run by Donald Trump and Elon Musk can be trusted to act rationally on the world stage?
This reminds me of the [0] iBrain.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtV80ZdpTY0
We have more choices than store and forward now. Look at systems like Croc or magic wormhole to exchange files. Look at systems like the axolotl prekey ratchet if you definitely need async connectivity.

The actual use cases for PGP are few and far between. Signing public releases, and attempting to send unsolicited secure mail to someone you don't know.
I don't know if we'd all be better off without Walmart. I on the other hand am going through the exercise of unwinding myself from Amazon etc., with varying degrees of difficulty:

[easy]
Echo devices: where the UX just keeps getting worse as well.
Prime Video: now has ads as well.
Washington Post: firewall so never read it
Prescription drugs: I use a Walmart-branded drug plan serviced by a local Safeway. Better than Amazon directly, I suppose

[moderate]
Kindle: I don't really need paid ebooks vs. the library etc. but do have a Kindle library.
Kindle Unlimited: library used books sales now for cheap reads.
Amazon books: Barnes & Noble for shipping, so far so good.
Amazon Prime: do I really need more stuff, quickly?

[hard]
Whole Foods: the UX of Safeway stores is surprisingly worse

I find this a healthy exercise as it makes me less of an impulsive consumer. I haven't decided if Target, Walmart etc. should also be avoided.
Relevant pop-culture:

https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Wolowitz_Zero-Gravity_...

Space toilets are one of those things that are both critical and ignored in most depictions of space. Even in all the years of Star Trek they have "sonic showers" , but never depict a toilet.

It's amazing that NASA publishes this data in real time.
Me too. At least they’re happy to capitalize “PhD”, oh wait, that somehow makes it worse.
Kind of.

Chancellor Scholz removed Christian Lindner from the position as Finance Minister.

The FDP then left the coalition. Die ZEIT writes:

"Die FDP zieht alle ihre Minister aus der Bundesregierung zurück. Sie wollten ihren Rücktritt geschlossen beim Bundespräsidenten einreichen, kündigte Fraktionschef Christian Dürr in Berlin an. Damit beendet die FDP das Dreierbündnis der Ampelkoalition."

One of the FDP ministers left the FDP and stayed in the Scholz government.
The FHIR clinical reasoning specs provide machine-oriented formats to talk about diagnostic flows. But the actual science is going to be PDFs for a while, and translating them into machine-friendly formats is going to be extra work for years and years.